Word: francoã
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...That overture is its brush with the stuff of the latter’s dark invisible center: namely, terror. Bolaño’s vision of a small Spanish tourist town still firmly in the grip of Francisco Franco??s guardia civil is political in its subtlety; “The Skating Rink” never pushes up against the brutal reality of fascism except in the most banal ways, and only when it serves the perfunctory plot. Bolaño raises his most intense and deeply esoteric criticism, not against the contemptible and defrauding bureaucrat Rosquelles...
While reading “Death in Spring,” Mercè Rodoreda’s final work, it is easy to forget how unlikely the publication of the book is. In Francisco Franco??s anti-Catalan Spain, Rodoreda faced not only suppression and exile but the extinction of her native language. Under Franco, Catalan’s very existence was threatened, banned outright in the public sphere and severely curtailed in the private sphere. In this context, while translations of Spanish language novels achieved worldwide fame and renown in the 1970s and 1980s, Catalan writers remained...
...only had to prove worthy of the honor—he had to prove that he was a man. Franco, who maintained a sheepish demeanor throughout the roast, first had his manhood called into question when Hasty Pudding Theatricals producer Pierce E. Tria ’10 brought up Franco??s admission to The New York Times that—despite growing up with a Jewish mother—he had never had a Bar Mitzvah. “We can’t give him Man of the Year if he?...
...with Professor of Comparative Literature Susan R. Suleiman, “Romance Studies 171, The Spanish Civil War from Both Sides of the Border.”“Tierra y Libertad” depicts the struggles of an English Communist, David, who joins in the fight against Franco??s Fascism, only to confront the massive infighting occurring amongst the anti-Franco??s forces, the Republican anarchists, and the communists.Directed by Ken Loach, the film conveys a clear political message and agenda, falling heavily on the side of the Republicans. Within that camp, the film...
...AIDS take different tacks alongside one another in one room, while two interpretations of the American flag hang in another, and two very disparate cartoons share a wall. Both of the cartoons demonstrate different interpretations of the medium. Picasso’s “Dream and Lie of Franco?? series, a near textless free-form fantasy from the 1930s, is a far cry from the word-based, highly stylized cartoons of David Rees’ “Get Your War On.” Regardless, they both serve the same purpose, demonstrating the grotesqueness and absurdity...